Our Featured Author:
Tony Morrison
Main Focus: The Bluest Eye
Featured Artist:
Andy Warhol
"Shot Orange Marilyn"
Featured Artist:
Alma Thomas
Beautiful Disaster
Jon McLaughlin
"and every magazine
tells her she's not good enough
the pictures that she sees
make her cry
she would change everything , everything
just ask her"
Excerpt from The Bluest Eye
" ' My eyes.'
'What about yours eyes?'
'I want them blue.'
Soaphead pursed his lips, and let his tongue stroke a gold inlay. He thought it was at once the most fantastic and most logical petition he had ever received. Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty."
p. 174
"Each pale yellow wrapper has a picture on it. A picture of little Mary Jane, for whom the candy is named. Smiling white face. Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort. The eyes are petulant, mischievous. To Pecola they are simply pretty. She eats the candy, and its sweetness is good. To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane. Be Mary Jane."
Tony Morrison
Main Focus:
The Bluest Eye
Featured Artist:
Andy Warhol
"Shot Orange Marilyn"
Featured Artist:
Alma Thomas
Beautiful Disaster
Jon McLaughlin
"and every magazine
tells her she's not good enough
the pictures that she sees
make her cry
she would change everything , everything
just ask her"
Excerpt from The Bluest Eye
" ' My eyes.'
'What about yours eyes?'
'I want them blue.'
Soaphead pursed his lips, and let his tongue stroke a gold inlay. He thought it was at once the most fantastic and most logical petition he had ever received. Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty."
p. 174
"Each pale yellow wrapper has a picture on it. A picture of little Mary Jane, for whom the candy is named. Smiling white face. Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort. The eyes are petulant, mischievous. To Pecola they are simply pretty. She eats the candy, and its sweetness is good. To eat the candy is somehow to eat the eyes, eat Mary Jane. Love Mary Jane. Be Mary Jane."
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